I think about this, but I also think about how Brecht, Camus, Weil, and a host of others also did so much of their work during that time.
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I think about this, but I also think about how Brecht, Camus, Weil, and a host of others also did so much of their work during that time.
Seeing all these posts in the U.S. saying stuff like “things are dark right now, but you’re allowed to feel joy!” and I’m curious if that’s what the Germans told each other as they were letting their government ship people to concentration camps.
listening to implementer Steve Meretzky and head of marketing Michael Dornbrook discuss Infocom packaging back at GDC 1999
archive.org/details/gdc-...
you remind me I once made a short comic about that
kiki and jiji in the mach five, hilarious
I know I shouldn’t be shocked but I am not inured to the cravenness.
War Powers Resolution
House
Republican 2 Yes, 215 No
Democratic 210 Yes, 4 No
Independent 0 Yes, 0 No
Senate
Republican 1 Yes, 52 No
Democratic 44 Yes, 1 No
Independent 2 Yes, 0 No
when I go walking in the hills and the coyote pack starts yipping I say to them in my thoughts “come to me my children” and imagine them carrying me off into the wilderness
yeah our value favoritism based on our varying relationships with differing species is weak
Yeah, I don’t think I can project myself into their refusal to abandon norms from a bygone era. Just don’t get it.
these goofs, from day one
I am Christian. I am a citizen of the United States of America. I reject Pete Hegseth’s definition of both.
one of the first feature scripts I wrote was along these lines, a romcom set in the 90s about an oblivious midwest couple during the Gulf War
Logical conclusion: schoolgirls are acceptable military targets according the most advanced AI and also the unapologetic misogynists in charge
Huh, neat coincidence
listening to the First Aid Kit tribute to Leonard Cohen, it’s pretty good, I like the group reading of “The Asthmatic”
absolutely insane the Senate Republicans voted today to say “the executive branch does not need us”— that being the case, maybe they should all quit
never played MOONMIST, but Infocom-inspired paratext is one of the reasons I’m making some video games, and Drew’s interactive fiction site is interesting— all this plus Warshaw’s Atari 2600 Indy (though I imagine the programmers didn’t write the manuals?)— I’m a manual freak
thereby falling directly into the Reluctant Hero trope oops
bring back those glasses sir
Morpheus or Trinity is trying to get your attention.
I see there’s a podcast as well, hope you’re a future guest, always enjoy your interviews/conversations
more punching, clearly
since they’re so poor at messaging: make educational short-form video series w/optimistic host, take impeachment process from filing to squashing— make it plain how the machine works and when Johnson kills it give that episode biggest push on socials— politics is theatre, embrace it, use it, show us
so it’s Wednesday and I bet a whole host of articles of impeachment were filed so far this week to show the country and the world the quality of the congressional character huh
technological determinism is silly
when I finish my interactive fiction game ‘The Abystrum Over Vectera Prime’ using Inform 7, I wonder if I could use this Apple II Infocom Disk Image Creator to run it on real hardware and emulation, that’d be fun
www.callapple.org/software/a-p...
a stranger bought my book and I am immediately suspicious
happy to learn TESTAMENT (1983) is joining the Criterion Collection— Jane Alexander will break your heart into a thousand million pieces #FilmSky
www.criterion.com/films/34202-...
not something I considered lolz
isn’t this fad something? watched it consume YouTube like wildfire, some hold shotgun mics as well— I have no issue with revealing the modes of production but to see virtually no one do this my whole life to suddenly even thumbnails celebrate the practice, very interesting how media practices spread
